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Verse Genesis 2:10. _A RIVER WENT OUT OF EDEN, C_.] It would astonish
an ordinary reader, who should be obliged to consult different
commentators and critics on the _situation of the terrestrial_
_Pa...
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8. גן _gan_ “garden, park,” παράδεισος _paradeisos_,
“an enclosed piece of ground.” עדן _‛__ēden_ “Eden,
delight.” קדם _qedem_ “fore-place, east; foretime.”
11....
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II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
Man in Innocency before the Fall
Genesis 2:4-45
_ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_
2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7)
3. The garden of Eden...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction
is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was
formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6.
RIVER. the Persian Gulf, known as such to the Accadians, in which the
river became four mouths (or heads) at spots where they flowed into
the source...
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PART NINE: THE BEGINNING OF SOCIETY
(Genesis 2:8-25)
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put
the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to
grow ev...
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_AND A RIVER WENT OUT OF EDEN TO WATER THE GARDEN; AND FROM THENCE IT
WAS PARTED, AND BECAME INTO FOUR HEADS._
A river went out of Eden to water the garden. The Hebrew word х_
YOTSEE'_ (H3318)] rende...
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2:10 streams. (b-22) Lit. 'heads.'...
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PARADISE AND THE FALL
In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual
teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is
evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 2
GOD RESTS
V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in
them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
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A RIVER WENT OUT OF EDEN. — Out of the large region of which the
garden formed a part. The tenses, too, are present, as if the main
features of the country remained unchanged: “a river goeth forth
fro...
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EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their
original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
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וְ נָהָר֙ יֹצֵ֣א מֵ עֵ֔דֶן לְ
הַשְׁקֹ֖ות
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THE CREATION
Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1
IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of
this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding
the order in which plan...
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MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE
Genesis 2:1
The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from
the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from
weariness, or exhaustion,...
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This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct
movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account.
First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed"
su...
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MAN IS DIFFERENT
Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was
different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the
earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
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_A river, &c. Moses gives many characteristics of Paradise, inviting
us, as it were, to search for it; and still we cannot certainly
discover where it is, or whether it exist at all at present, in sta...
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
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10._And a river went out _Moses says that one river flowed to water
the garden, which afterwards would divide itself into four heads. It
is sufficiently agreed among all, that two of these heads are t...
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In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion
as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a
creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
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AND A RIVER WENT OUT OF EDEN TO WATER THE GARDEN,.... Before man was
created, as Aben Ezra observes, this river went out of Eden and
watered it on every side; but what river is here meant, is hard to...
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it
was parted, and became into four heads.
Ver. 10. _And a river went out._] Pliny writeth, _a_ that in the
province of Babylon there...
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_A river went out of Eden_ This river, branching itself into four
streams, contributed much both to the pleasantness and fertility of
the garden. _Hiddekel_ and _Euphrates_ are rivers of Babylon: but...
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1 The first Sabbath.
4 The maner of the creation.
8 The planting of the garden of Eden,
10 and the riuer thereof.
17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the
creatures.
21 T...
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it
was parted, and became into four heads. This great river thus had its
beginning in the land of Eden, flowed through the entire leng...
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The Garden of Eden...
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SECOND SECTION
_Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical
Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._
GENESIS 2:4-25.
A. The Earth waiting for Man.
4These are the generations [genealogies]...
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THE SEVENTH DAY
The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1.
"Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were
finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
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8-14 The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but
a garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we
seek things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approac...
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A RIVER, or, _rivers, _ by a common enallage. EDEN, the country in
which Paradise was; where those rivers either arose from one spring,
or met together in one channel. From the garden, it was divided...
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The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely,
"the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special
attention.
There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
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Genesis 2:10 river H5104 out H3318 (H8802) Eden H5731 water H8248
(H8687) garden H1588 parted H6504 ...
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MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II.
Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God
is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
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‘And a river flowed out of Eden to water the plain, and from there
it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is Pishon, it
is the one which flows round the whole land of Havilah where t...
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THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4).
‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant
(siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of
the field had yet sp...
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Genesis 2:10
Attempts have been made to find out what rivers are here spoken of by
Moses, and where they are to be found. But the description in Genesis
was purposely intended to baffle and defy any g...
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Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
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CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27
explained. The Edenic covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve.
CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real
man i...
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Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought,
but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6.
Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan
Pentateuch reads, the si...
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_The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden_
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
I. IN THIS GARDEN PROVISION WAS MADE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF MAN.
1. The garden was beautiful.
2. The garden was fruitful.
3. The...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered
initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis
1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:10 The description of the RIVER that
FLOWED OUT OF EDEN dividing into FOUR RIVERS implies that Eden
occupied a central location in the ancient world. In sp
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.”
wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst).
GENESIS 2:17. SURELY DIE] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in
Genesis 2:16...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 2:8
In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition,
the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place
of rest, now reverts to a point of ti...
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
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a river. Psalms 46:4 Revelation 22:1 Eden....
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THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN
Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the
Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...